River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-01
\ BELGIAN STORY.


workmen no longer sought an increase
Of wages and F; decrease of working
hours. What they now wanted was
the complete -ubver-ion of the establish
Ell order ofthfug- When called on to
state their grievances their only
reply Wa:
..'Ti~u.t right that it must always DE
tbs. same people that are rich
That wa- all. To every question
WIS given this same answer. dictated by
the same l,lea, the only one that ~eeemed
10 renain clear to their minds after
li-tr.ing To stump speakers and tavern
orators II was useless to reason with
them. to remind them that these same
rich people against whom they were 80
bitterly set bad raised large sum of
none, last month To relieve the distress
Of families that bad been bereft by an
explosion OF tire-damp in the St Fran
co.'s mines. and 20 great had been the
relief granted th;u the miners were.
even then. fighting among themselves
to marry the widows of those who
had remained underground Nothing
would do Nullen Or noisy. according
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pact groups, ~ T TO make q greater
display II their strength. going every
where iii strict obedience 10 the orders
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their lives and ahluiou To their fate the
unfortunate, creatures that had iptrU-ted
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''r'Fti''ti's-, every night there We're
more hands refusing To 20 down the
SHIFTS vt kelaIrt and In the Bertrand
VALLEY I'll the traces had been cut. At
Norampuut miners had been all but
murdered, and had been compelled to
ilce for having shown "a willingness To
resume WORK Horde> Of men. all
hlassened up. ovcrran the fields
Drunken men aud women and begging
children We're met "a every turn. All
with weapons I'D their hands Ia ont
If the way places the WAYS of the
.toker~ ON 4 former occasion We're put
into practice. and reign of terror
instituted for the peaceable peasant and
quiet burghe.-
The troops. called nm haste from
every point. We're not sufficiently strong
In numbers 10 guell the disorders.
TIE officers We're uneasy lest their
soldiers, eNJsperated 10y such continued
alarms. should fire without orders In
the day while ON the march, ut night
1t the mess, nothing w'> heard
but talk which seemed to presage a ter
ribie engagement the first time the
two forces would come together.
over one If the roads which cut
through the clark country" thirty sol
dfer- we're going I'd 4 quickstep under
au es rain. hea, ing full in their .ces
auG increasing twofOld the weight Of
their equipments With aSub-Lleuten-
ant q command they had LEFT the
village To- ;akc charge Of the RebauN
Gla~-workS. which a gang Of plumber
ers had been threatening since early
morn FOR three long hours they had
been >pi3~hIn@ aloI. throl1il tH't DiaeA'
sticky uire Of eoal-duSt- Night came
ON. seeming but little darker IMAM the
gloomy day which had preceded IT. On
al Side~ were To be- seen nothing but
drenched hcld-- here and there house
Of sinister aspect or wretched hovel.
which. though crUmhling to ruin might.
nevertheless. he the dwelling-place Of
some human being
AZ times the road would rise up an
abrupt slope. and then even these sights
would appear 80 dimly 70 the soldiers
that they might have thought they We're
marching over an aerIal road through
the gray clouds
All - a~udden q CLEAN OF light had
appeared in the distance. Al hrst they
Thought II q signal Of some klnd' but II
had increased and spread Ia - great an
extent that they soon saw II was CON
HagI ration
The subj lieutenant cried out. Halt,'
Then ...Ilinsr Ia one of his soldiers he
.-LaJ ..Wber, l. that fire.
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.Ya.. Lieutenant
AMI then like 4 SILVER this sentence
-prcsd throughthe ranks.
The rI4~-wurk- ARE on fire.
..T0ru ard commanded the officer
The men began their march anew.
IaepIy moved IN the new disaster ON
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